Willard (name)

The name Willard may refer to:

People

• Aaron Willard (born 1757), Boston industrialist
• Adam Willard, (born 1973), drummer
• Aimee Willard (1974–1996), murder victim
• Alexander Hamilton Willard (1778–1865), member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Archibald Willard (1836–1918), American painter
• Ashbel P. Willard (1820–1860), American politician, 11th governor of Indiana
• Barbara Willard (1909–1994), British author
• Beatrice Willard (1925–2003), American botanist
• Charles W. Willard (1827–1880), US Representative from Vermont
• Cyrus Field Willard (1858-1942), American journalist, political activist, theosophist, and freemason
• Dallas Willard (1935–2013), American philosopher and author
• Dan Willard, American computer scientist and logician
• Daniel Willard (1861–1942), American railroad executive
• Edward Smith Willard (1853–1915), English stage actor
• Emma Willard (1787–1870), American activist and educator
• Frances Willard (disambiguation), several people:
  • Frances Willard (suffragist) (1839–1898), American educator, temperance reformer and women's suffragist
  • Frances Willard (magician) (born 1940), stage magician
• Fred Willard (born 1939), American actor
• George Willard (1824–1901), US Representative from Michigan
• Horace B. Willard (1825–1900), American politician
• Huntington Willard (born c. 1953), American geneticist
• Jess Willard (1881–1968), American boxer
• Jess Willard (footballer) (1924–2005), English footballer and coach
• John Willard (disambiguation), several people:
  • John Willard (died 1692), American witchcraft defendant
  • John Willard (judge) (1792–1862), New York lawyer and politician
  • John Willard (playwright) (1885-1942), American
  • John D. Willard (1799–1864), New York lawyer and politician
• Joseph Willard (1738–1804), American clergyman and academic
• Joseph A. Willard (1803–1868), New York politician
• Josiah Willard (1805–1868), American activist
• Ken Willard (born 1943), American football player
• Kenneth R. Willard (1902–1987), New York politician
• Kevin Willard (born 1975), American basketball coach
• Marcel Willard (1889-1956), French politician
• Mary Louisa Willard (1898-1993), American college professor
• Nancy Willard (born 1936), American author and poet
• Ralph Willard (born 1946), American basketball coach
• Robert F. Willard (born 1950), US Navy officer
• Rod Willard (born 1960), Canadian ice hockey player
• Samuel Willard (1640–1707), American colonial clergyman
• Sidney Willard (1780–1856), mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Simon Willard (1753–1848), American maker of Simon Willard clocks
• Simon Willard (first generation) (1605–1676), Massachusetts colonist
• Solomon Willard (1783–1861), American stonecarver and builder
• Sylvie Willard (born 1952), French bridge player
• Victor Willard (born 1815), American farmer and state senator

Given name

• Willard Bartlett (1846–1925), New York Chief Judge
• Willard Harrison Bennett (1903–1987), American physicist
• Willard Boyle (1924–2011), Canadian physicist
• Willard Brown (1915–1996), American baseball player
• Willard H. Brownson (1845–1935), US Navy officer
• Willard C. Butcher (born 1926), American banker
• Willard S. Curtin (1905–1996), US Representative from Pennsylvania
• Willard Dewveall (1936–2006), American football player
• Willard Dyson, American drummer
• Willard R. Espy (1910–1999), American editor, philologist, writer, and poet
• Willard Estey (1919–2002), Canadian Supreme Court Justice
• Willard Hall (1780–1875), American lawyer and politician, US Representative from Delaware
• Willard Preble Hall (1820–1882), American lawyer and politician, governor of Missouri
• Willard Hershberger (1910–1940), American baseball player
• Willard Ikola (born 1932), American ice hockey player and coach
• Willard Johnson (1820–1900), New York politician
• Willard F. Jones (1890–1967), Naval engineer and Gulf Oil executive
• Willard Keith (1920–1942), American Marine officer
• Willard Kennedy, better known as Bill Kennedy (actor) (1908–1997), American actor and voice artist
• Willard Libby (1908–1980), American chemist
• Willard Maas (1906-1971), American experimental filmmaker and poet
• Willard Kitchener MacDonald (1906–1971), "the Hermit of Gully Lake" in Canada
• Willard Mack (1873–1934), Canadian-American actor, director, and playwright
• Willard Manus (born 1930), American novelist, playwright, and journalist
• J. Willard Marriott (1900–1985), American businessman
• Willard Marshall (1921–2000), American baseball player
• W. Eugene McCombs (1925–2004), American politician, North Carolina state representative
• Willard Metcalf (1858–1925), American artist
• Willard Mullin (1902–1978), American sports cartoonist
• Willard H. Murray, Jr. (born 1931), California State Assemblyman
• Willard Zerbe Park (1906–1965), anthropologist
• Willard Phelps (born 1941), former Yukon politician
• Willard Price (1887–1983), American natural historian and author
• Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000), American philosopher and logician
• Willard Richards (1804–1854), leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
• Willard Rockwell (1888–1988), businessman
• Willard Mitt Romney (born 1947), better known as Mitt Romey, 70th Governor of Massachusetts and Republican Presidential Nominee
• Willard Saulsbury, Jr. (1861–1927), US Senator from Delaware
• Willard Saulsbury, Sr. (1820–1892), US Senator from Delaware
• Willard Scott (born 1934), American journalist
• Willard Cleon Skousen (1913–2006), American author and conservative faith-based political theorist
• Willard Carroll Smith Jr, better known as Will Smith (born 1968), American actor, producer, and rapper
• Willard J. Smith (1910–2000), former Commandant of the United States Coast Guard
• Willard Dickerman Straight (1880–1918), American investment banker and diplomat
• Willard Thorp (1899–1992), economist, academic, and presidential advisor
• Willard Van Dyke (1906–1986), American filmmaker and photographer
• Willard Warner (1826–1906), brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War
• W. Garfield Weston (1898–1978), Canadian businessman
• Willard Wheatley (1915–1997), former Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands
• Sir Willard White (born 1946), British bass-baritone
• Willard Wigan (born 1957), British sculptor
• Willard Huntington Wright, better known under his pen name S. S. Van Dine (1888–1939), American art critic and author

Other

• F.D.C. Willard, Siamese cat that coauthored several physics papers between 1975 and 1980.